Contents tagged with Russia
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Finland accuses Russia of GPS failures during NATO exercises
The Finnish Foreign Ministry said that they agree with the conclusions of the Norwegian military that the interference in the GPS navigation system during the NATO exercises was caused by Russia. Nevertheless, in a statement published on its website, the Ministry said that it believed it was inappropriate to disclose details of this case to the public, it was stated .
As noted by the ministry representative, the authorities continue to investigate the incident and are currently discussing …
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Putin: Normandy format meetings before the elections in Ukraine meaningless
Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his briefing to the Russian media, stated that meetings in the Normandy format before the presidential elections in Ukraine, which will take place on March 31, are meaningless.
“At the moment, meeting in the Normandy format during the election campaign that is taking place in Ukraine, is pretty much meaningless because today’s Ukrainian authorities have not shown any desire to comply with the Minsk agreements. They do nothing to implement these …
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Kyiv: Ukraine has arrested 15 ships for visiting closed Crimean ports
Ukraine has already arrested or placed other restrictions on 15 foreign vessels that have visited the closed ports of Russia-annexed Crimea, said Oleh Slobodyan, assistant to the head of Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service (SBGS), Radio Liberty reports.
Ukraine’s border guards take actions when they see that ships are entering Ukraine’s economic sea zone or ports.
“Already 15 vessels have been placed under arrest or other restrictions. These are all vessels that have violated Ukraine’s …
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Russia's Gazprom increased gas supplies to Donbas
From January to September 2018, PJSC Gazprom supplied 1.75 billion cubic meters of gas to the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that are not controlled by Ukraine. That is 11.5% more than the same period in 2017 and 26.9% more than during nine months in 2016, according to the company’s annual statements, Interfax Ukraine reported.
Gazprom has been supplying gas to the uncontrolled territory since February 2015 through gas metering stations in Prokhorovka and Platovo on the border …
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DPR head Pushilin announces integration with LPR and accession to Russia
Newly-elected leader of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin claimed that borders and customs between territories controlled by the DPR and LPR would be removed, and that in the future, the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions which are controlled by pro-Russian militants will become a part of Russia, the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda reports.
“We can speak about a single Donbas, but it happened so in 2014 l, that it was split into two Republics. We didn’t …
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Lithuanian Foreign Minister: Russian missiles are dangerous for Europe
Russia has been violating the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF) for several years, the Foreign Minister of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius said in an interview with DW on Wednesday, November 14. Although US President Donald Trump announced that he was planning to quit the treaty, it is just an intention and not yet a decision. According to the Lithuanian politician, it is Donald Trump's tactic to exert pressure on Russia.
Linas Linkevičius said that …
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Austrian Chancellor: Espionage scandal will not affect relations between Austria and Russia
Liga.net reports that the Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz stated at a press conference that Austria intends to preserve good relations with Russia, despite the recent espionage scandal.
“We have a good relationship with Russia, and this will not change in the future,” stated Kurz.
At the same time, the chancellor stressed that Austria will always “prevent and criticize” espionage attempts.
Earlier in Austria, a former officer who from the 1990’s had been giving information to Russia …
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Czech Prime Minister confirms his son's visit to Crimea
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis confirmed that last year his son visited annexed Crimea, informs Radio Liberty’s Russian Service.
According to the local informational website Ceskenoviny.cz, on November 14, the head of the Czech government, while speaking to the journalists in Prague, clarified that Andrej Babis Junior was visiting Ukraine.
The prime minister said that Babis Junior has some psychiatric problems and criticized journalists for interviewing him. According to the politician, …
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Putin forced to go through metal detector in Singapore
The security services at the ASEAN summit forced the Russian president to go through a metal detector, which is not usually the case for heads of state, who are normally given a separate passage without control. Despite the customary practice, Vladimir Putin was made to walk through a metal detector, Kommersant newspaper reported on Wednesday, November 14.
“He arrived at the summit at the Suntec trade exhibition center and wanted to pass by the metal detector frame as usual, which under such …
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Russia claims to be fighting off western cyber attacks
The Russian military are taking all measures to ensure the information security of the Defense Ministry due to the increase in the risk of cyber-attacks by foreign countries, stated the head of the Eighth Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, Lieutenant-General Yuri Kuznetsov in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.
He said that Russian experts currently enhance security in the automated systems of the Defense Ministry, detect and eliminate cyber-attacks on …